Library Rock's Backpages

Spandau Ballet Want You To Dance. That's All.

Iman Lababedi, Creem, August 1981

ON THE DAY that Bobby Sands finally starved himself to death and two hours after Spandau Ballet's first ever press conference I'm in the coffee shop of a Manhattan midtown hotel arguing with Gary Kemp — Spand's composer and synthesizer/guitar player.

Total word count of piece: 1431

Subscribe

Becoming a member is easy. Membership gives you access to all the thousands of articles in the library.

Click here to go to Subscribe page.

Click here for academic and other group subscriptions.